Spectroscopic Evidence That the Extreme Properties of IRAS F10214+4724 are due to Gravitational Lensing

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1995-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9506089v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript, 3 figures included. Accepted for publication in MNRAS pink pages; submitted 1 May 19

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The extreme bolometric luminosity of IRAS F10214+4724, and in particular the huge mass in molecular gas inferred from the CO line fluxes have led to suggestions that this is a giant galaxy in the process of formation. An arc-like structure and the closeness of a second object suggest, however, that gravitational lensing may be responsible for its anomalously high luminosity and mass. In this paper, we use an optical spectrum taken in conditions of 0.7-arcsec seeing to provide further evidence that F10214+4724 is a gravitationally lensed system. We measure tentative redshifts of 0.896 and 0.899 for galaxies projected $\approx 1$ and $\approx 3$ arcsec from IRAS F10214+4724 respectively. Identifying the former as the lensing galaxy we obtain a mass:light ratio consistent with those derived for other lenses, and find that its luminosity is consistent with the velocity dispersion deduced from the radius of the Einstein ring. If lensed, our models suggest magnification by a factor $\sim 10$, and hence an intrinsic bolometric luminosity for F10214+4724 similar to local ULIRGs.

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